Re: [gentoo-user] how long does an install take on "average"?
THUFIR HAWAT wrote: The times: start: March 20 2006 14:00:01 finish: March 21 2006 13:22:39 Depends entirely on what you installed, your CPU, your RAM, and half a dozen other things. I'd expect with X and KDE/Gnome that looks about right. If all your src is local (portage, stage3, and distfiles), you have dual CPU, lots of RAM, and are installing a stripped down build to be a server it takes just under two hours or so depending on the amount of software I need for that type of server. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how long does an install take on "average"?
kashani wrote: THUFIR HAWAT wrote: The times: start: March 20 2006 14:00:01 finish: March 21 2006 13:22:39 Depends entirely on what you installed, your CPU, your RAM, and half a dozen other things. I'd expect with X and KDE/Gnome that looks about right. If all your src is local (portage, stage3, and distfiles), you have dual CPU, lots of RAM, and are installing a stripped down build to be a server it takes just under two hours or so depending on the amount of software I need for that type of server. kashani If you do GRP packages, it's even faster than that. Immediately after I bought my laptop, I went to Denny's with it and an install CD and a package CD and had it installed before the battery died. And that's on a Pentium M 1.86Ghz and 512MB of RAM. It's all dependant on how you install it. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how long does an install take on "average"?
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:10:31 -0600 Mike Myers wrote: > kashani wrote: > > > THUFIR HAWAT wrote: > > > >> The times: > >> > >> start: March 20 2006 14:00:01 > >> finish: March 21 2006 13:22:39 > > > > > > Depends entirely on what you installed, your CPU, your RAM, and half a > > dozen other things. I'd expect with X and KDE/Gnome that looks about > > right. > > > > If all your src is local (portage, stage3, and distfiles), you have > > dual CPU, lots of RAM, and are installing a stripped down build to be > > a server it takes just under two hours or so depending on the amount > > of software I need for that type of server. > > > > kashani > > If you do GRP packages, it's even faster than that. Immediately after I > bought my laptop, I went to Denny's with it and an install CD and a > package CD and had it installed before the battery died. And that's on > a Pentium M 1.86Ghz and 512MB of RAM. It's all dependant on how you > install it. I'll approx 11 hrs into a PIII-450, 256MB Ram install ... I started it before leaving for work this AM and it's chugging away. Perhaps it'll be done by the time the Father-Daughter dinner and soccer practice are done (in 4 hrs). Perhaps it'll be done by the time I head for work tomorrow. Perhaps it'll be 24 hrs like the initial posting. Only time will tell :-> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how long does an install take on "average"?
I say... probably a week (if you make kde and other stuffs). I install in pIII 900 and take almost a week! Good luck ;) On 3/21/06, David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:10:31 -0600 > Mike Myers wrote: > > > kashani wrote: > > > > > THUFIR HAWAT wrote: > > > > > >> The times: > > >> > > >> start: March 20 2006 14:00:01 > > >> finish: March 21 2006 13:22:39 > > > > > > > > > Depends entirely on what you installed, your CPU, your RAM, and half a > > > dozen other things. I'd expect with X and KDE/Gnome that looks about > > > right. > > > > > > If all your src is local (portage, stage3, and distfiles), you have > > > dual CPU, lots of RAM, and are installing a stripped down build to be > > > a server it takes just under two hours or so depending on the amount > > > of software I need for that type of server. > > > > > > kashani > > > > If you do GRP packages, it's even faster than that. Immediately after I > > bought my laptop, I went to Denny's with it and an install CD and a > > package CD and had it installed before the battery died. And that's on > > a Pentium M 1.86Ghz and 512MB of RAM. It's all dependant on how you > > install it. > > I'll approx 11 hrs into a PIII-450, 256MB Ram install ... I started it > before leaving for work this AM and it's chugging away. Perhaps it'll > be done by the time the Father-Daughter dinner and soccer practice are > done (in 4 hrs). Perhaps it'll be done by the time I head for work > tomorrow. Perhaps it'll be 24 hrs like the initial posting. > > Only time will tell :-> > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Diogo B. Tridapalli -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how long does an install take on "average"?
This is a damnedly ridiculous conversation. My piece of string is 1.0 m long, how long is yours? On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:09:38 -0300 Diogo Tridapalli wrote: > I say... probably a week (if you make kde and other stuffs). > > I install in pIII 900 and take almost a week! > > Good luck ;) > > On 3/21/06, David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:10:31 -0600 > > Mike Myers wrote: > > > > > kashani wrote: > > > > > > > THUFIR HAWAT wrote: > > > > > > > >> The times: > > > >> > > > >> start: March 20 2006 14:00:01 > > > >> finish: March 21 2006 13:22:39 > > > > > > > > > > > > Depends entirely on what you installed, your CPU, your RAM, and half a > > > > dozen other things. I'd expect with X and KDE/Gnome that looks about > > > > right. > > > > > > > > If all your src is local (portage, stage3, and distfiles), you have > > > > dual CPU, lots of RAM, and are installing a stripped down build to be > > > > a server it takes just under two hours or so depending on the amount > > > > of software I need for that type of server. > > > > > > > > kashani > > > > > > If you do GRP packages, it's even faster than that. Immediately after I > > > bought my laptop, I went to Denny's with it and an install CD and a > > > package CD and had it installed before the battery died. And that's on > > > a Pentium M 1.86Ghz and 512MB of RAM. It's all dependant on how you > > > install it. > > > > I'll approx 11 hrs into a PIII-450, 256MB Ram install ... I started it > > before leaving for work this AM and it's chugging away. Perhaps it'll > > be done by the time the Father-Daughter dinner and soccer practice are > > done (in 4 hrs). Perhaps it'll be done by the time I head for work > > tomorrow. Perhaps it'll be 24 hrs like the initial posting. > > > > Only time will tell :-> > > > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > > > -- > Diogo B. Tridapalli > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how long does an install take on "average"?
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:09:38 -0300, Diogo Tridapalli wrote: > I install in pIII 900 and take almost a week! I installed on a 1GHz iBook and had a full KDE desktop in a little over an hour. The GRP CDs are there for a reason :) -- Neil Bothwick A bug in the hand is better than one as yet undetected. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] how long does an install take on "average"?
Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:09:38 -0300, Diogo Tridapalli wrote: > > > >>I install in pIII 900 and take almost a week! >> >> > >I installed on a 1GHz iBook and had a full KDE desktop in a little over >an hour. The GRP CDs are there for a reason :) > > > > I instaled on a Compaq Server, 200MHz CPU and 128MBs of memory, in a little over two hours. I compiled mine too. I didn't have anything but the basics since it only runs folding but it didn't take long. Gentoo might take a little longer but it is well worth it just because of portage and the ease of updating. Later Dale :-) :-) :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
